Applications Open for the 2019-2020 Alabama Student Grant Program

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Birmingham, Alabama resident J. William “Billy” McFarland, Jr. served as special assistant to the president for business development at Judson College. One of J. William McFarland, Jr.’s many achievements at the institution of higher learning was his role in doubling annual appropriations to the Alabama Student Grant Program by the Legislature of Alabama in 2015. 

Established in 1978, the Alabama Student Grant Program is a state-funded scholarship program that offers financial assistance to students attending college in one of the state’s participating independent colleges and institutions of higher learning. The Alabama Student Grant Program grants scholarship based on academic merit. 

Applications are open for the 2019-2020 Alabama Student Grant assistance. To be eligible for the grant, an applicant must have attained a secondary school graduation certificate or equivalent and be enrolled as a full-time or part-time student at a higher education program that’s at least six months long. Additionally, an applicant must be a resident of Alabama and a citizen or soon-to-be citizen of the United States. The student should not be enrolled in an undergraduate religious or sectarian study. Students of theology, divinity, and other religion-inclining courses are precluded from the grant program.

Students seeking financial assistance for the fall term 2019 must apply before September 16, 2019. Applications for the winter quarter must be received by January 15, 2020, for the spring semester by February 17, 2020, and for the spring quarter by April 15, 2020.